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...John Dillinger has really been all the places he was reported to have been in the past month, he must leap along the central plains like a demented Indian's ghost. "John has a lot of hoss sense," says his father, a farmer at Mooresville, Ind., "but he's not guilty of half what they accuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Dillinger | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Damian, Rumania, villagers haunted by the "ghost" of Mrs. Stephen Safta, suicide, exhumed her body, cut out her heart, burned it, scattered the ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Other charges: 1) Sworn affidavits testified to 8,000 "ghost" voters; 2) gambling and vice are wide open in Kansas City; 3) it is notorious as a hangout for the criminal riff-raff of the Midwest; 4) Desperado Harvey Bailey was arrested while playing on one of the city's best golf courses; 5) Verne Miller had played in a foursome with Police Director E. C. Reppert shortly before he machine-gunned to death four State and Federal officers in Kansas City's Union Station plaza last June;* 6) the $200,000 payoff in the Urschel kidnapping case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Little Tammany | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...ghost of a hanged pirate comes back for a last family evening with his adoring old-maid sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Gothic | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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